Emmys Ratings Bounce Back Slightly

After years of ratings erosion, the 61st Annual Emmy Awards captured about 1 million more viewers than last year's low.

Some 13.3 million tuned in the three-hour broadcast, better than last year's 12.3 million but not anywhere close to the Giants-Cowboys game that drew up to 23.2 million viewers in its second hour, up from the first hour of 21.2 million. For the cliffhanger ending, viewership went down a bit to 20.5 million.

The hour by hour totals for the Emmys were 14.9 million at 8 p.m., 13.7 million for the second hour and 11.3 million in the third hour, which ran over by just five minutes.

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Roger Catlin is TV critic for the Hartford Courant and writes a daily column about what's on television called TV Eye. He is also on the board of the Television Critics Association. Before all of this, he was rock critic ... read more